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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the Un...

From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural theorist.“Eagleton is second to none among cultural...

An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter B...

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent...

Is the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East?In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the ...

War Plan Iraq brings together the arguments that can shake President Bush and Prime Minister Blair’s determination to start an illegal war with Ira...

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War IIIn this singular book written during Wor...

On October 7th 2001, US-led forces invaded Afghanistan, marking the start of George Bush and Tony Blair’s “War on Terror.” Six years on, where have...

This expose of Washington politics revives the disreputable profession of muckraking, scrutinizing with an unforgiving eye the political culture of...

Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of...

A private American consortium of corporate owners aims to pipe and ship water from northern Quebec to the US. Congressmen, state governors, and a f...

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican governmentFrom a storefront law office in the ...

The “inspiring,” little-known history of the Jewish vigilantes of the 43 Group, who fought fascism in Britain following World War II (Guardian). R...

The “inspiring,” little-known history of the Jewish vigilantes of the 43 Group, who fought fascism in Britain following World War II (Guardian). R...

Taking apart the ideology of the "middle class"Tidings of a shrinking middle class in one part of the world and its expansion in another absorb our...

The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a mil...

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Offic...

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted ...

The industrial revolution which so transformed nineteenth-century labour brought about fundamental changes in the lives of working-class families. ...

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to powerIn 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, ...

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies a...

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies a...